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How much money do you spend per day?
A) weekday B) weekend
Not including rent in this equation.
What are you spending it on?
Also, do you live alone/with someone… Curious as to how much money on average you people spend on a typical:
A) weekday B) weekend
Not including rent in this equation.
What are you spending it on?
Also, do you live alone/with someone else, or any other factors that may be relevant
If you're comfortable, how much per month (including rent)
single, living in neukölln, around 40-50€ on a weekday and maybe 70-80 on a saturday or sunday. weekday is mostly just coffee (3-4€ at a decent spot) and then whatever i grab for lunch, like a döner or bowl, that's 8-12€. dinner is usually cooking at home so maybe another 5-7€ if i'm being frugal. weekend i'll go out for a proper meal or drinks, easily 30-40€ just on that. i don't buy lunch on weekends though, usually sleep in and have a big breakfast.
biggest factor is honestly how many times i'm tempted by a späti run, those add up quick. monthly with rent i'm at about 1500-1600€ including everything, which feels standard for a one-bedroom here.
Couple living in Wedding, both working from home a few days a week. Weekday is maybe 25-30€ each, mostly because we share a lot of costs. Coffee is at home, lunch is whatever we meal-prepped or leftovers. Dinner out maybe once a week, that bumps it up. Weekend is where it gets spendy, probably 50-60€ each on Saturday alone if we're meeting friends at a Markthalle or going for a proper dinner in Kreuzberg.
The biggest difference for us is that we don't do späti runs, but we spend way more on groceries because we cook almost everything from scratch. We go to the weekly market at Leopoldplatz and that's easily 60-70€ on produce alone. Monthly with rent and everything we're around 2200-2400€ total for the two of us, which is pretty comfortable for a 2-room in Wedding.
If you're single and eating out a lot, your numbers make sense. But if you share costs and cook at home, it's way less than people think.
Living in Friedrichshain with a roommate, we split everything 50/50. Weekday I'm at maybe 20-25€ because I bike everywhere and skip the morning coffee shop ritual. My weakness is the bakery on Boxhagener, I'll grab a pastry there for 2€ and that's it until lunch. Dinner is usually something quick from the Turkish supermarket on Warschauer, the produce is way cheaper than the Bio markets.
Weekend is a different story because I'll go to a club night and that's 15-20€ entry plus 10-15€ on drinks inside, though I pregame at home to save. If I'm going to Berghain or about blank I budget an extra 30€ just for the inevitable late-night sausage stand afterwards. Monthly with rent and utilities I'm around 1300-1400€, which is manageable for my share of a 3-room Altbau.
What is the correct spelling for a street name that appears differently on multiple signs in Charlottenburg?
Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.
if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point
honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.
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